Comics History

Disney Agency Artists

Although most productions have their own national artists, a large part of the artwork is often assigned to foreign artists. Some artists work directly for a publisher, but most of the time, their work is bought through an agency. The largest agency is the Spanish Comicup studios in Barcelona, that was founded in the 1980s by José Cánovas. The studio gets commissions from all European publishers, and sometimes also from the non-European. Other artists assembled co-workers around them and began their own studio, such as Francisco Bargadà, who founded the Recreo Studio, and Vicar. The South American studio of Jaime Diaz provides mainly artwork for the American Disney Studios, primarily movie adaptations and comics with television characters.